Vince McMahon spoke during the Second Quarter Earnings Report Conference Call on Thursday morning. During this call, Vince spoke about some new potential competition for WWE.
While not naming AEW directly, he did mention TNT, which made it obvious who he was talking about. McMahon ended up throwing a bit of shade at AEW for their “blood and guts” content.
Here is what Vince said (h/t to Fightful for the quote below):
“We’re gonna be a bit edgier, but still remain in the PG environment. We won’t come anywhere close to going into another level. That will be something we do in terms of the direction of content, more controversy, and better storylines. At the same time, we’re not going to go back to the Attitude Era. We’re not gonna do blood and guts, such as being done on perhaps a new potential competitor. We’re not going to go back to that gory crap that we graduated from. It’s a more sophisticated product.”
“As far as competition is concerned, the old adage is ‘competition is good for everyone,’ I think that’s generally the case. We’re hoping that, to the extent that they are competition, they don’t continue with blood and guts and gory things that they have been doing, which would be bad. I can’t imagine, I can’t speak for TNT, but I can’t imagine they would put up with that.”
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